Category: Philosophy
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Summer’s Last Holiday
Summer’s Last Holiday used to be the summerseason’s first holidayMay-day, still celebratedaround the world onthe first of May celebrates labor’s victoriesof the late 19th and early 20thcenturies over robber baronsand their bankers and lackeysfederal, state, and local our owners bought and manipulatedthe levers of power; moved ourcelebration to season’s endreduced to backyard smokey grillsand a…
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Outrage for the Execution of Willie McGee
Outrage for the Execution of Willie McGee – Lyricsby Goodnight, Texas That old shoe was bound to walk now that man right out the doorThis old shoe is bound to walk now tell you what the reasons forThis old dollar bought me nothing, this dollar sick and frailThis dollar bought you something, now your man…
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Lynn – Part 4 – Memoir Continued
Religious Complications Lynn never mentioned that she was religious, although she did have a ‘New Jerusalem Bible’, which she said was Catholic and that she just liked having it to document things in. We considered ourselves to be ‘spiritual’, but not religious. At least, I thought we did… WRONG! I had given up on religion…
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Where Are We – Am I?
Where Are We – Am I? a matter of perception, as are all thingshere, there, everywhere, nowhere, all the samein perspective, finding relativities and domains imbeded in streams and eddies of space/timemeditating … at one, or fighting, kicking, screamingregardless, ends as do all things … entropic disolution yes, some flash-out, burn-out, peter-out, wink-outfilter-out, turn-out, poop-out,…
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4 Dead in Ohio – Memoir Continued
4 Dead in Ohio – The Kent State Massacre The Ohio National Guard had killed four students at Kent State on May 4th ‘70. LC3 organized an assembly in the school’s outdoor mall area to discuss the event. I was on the stage as one of the representatives of our student government. There were several…
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The New York Commune – Memoir Continued
I’ve posted most of this adventure previously, but this is where it belongs in the narrative. The New York Commune During the mid-to-late ’60s, I read a string of Hermann Hesse novels. There was Journey to the East, Siddhartha, Damien, The Glass Bead Game, Steppenwolf, and Narcissus and Goldman. They struck sympathetic notes in me…
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Junior Year Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Junior Year Part 2 – Memoir Continued Toward the end of the school year, I tried out with the choir director, Mr. Meyer for my senior year. I also brought in and sang for him, To the Evening Star from Tannhauser by Wagner, which I sang at the City Auditions after Mr. Meyer approved and…
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Common Sense
What is ‘common sense’ but what benefits the majority, the planet, and all its inhabitabts. Common Sense We’re always advised to use itbut not to abuse itwhat’s ‘common’ for one of usnot necessarily so for the rest like everything else in existencecommon sense evolves, changes from one generation to the next, often unrecognizable decades hence but for…
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Depression
Depression seems to be a major topic on several of the blogs I’ve been reading recently. I’ve struggled with it several times over my long life. I believe that it is a normal part of human existence, and the following is my current perspective on the condition, based on my personal experience with it. Depression…
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Wisdom’s Ancient Wells
Wisdom’s Ancient Wells wells of wisdomhow many are thereonly oneorone for each culturecivilizationcreed orpersuation how many ‘truths’are thereonly onewho decides“whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.” –Nietzsche does it not benefit usto reexaminerethink our sourses our fundimentals from time to timea healthy skepticism tohelp avoid the entropy…
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